Alexandra Stoddard quote: "My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life."

I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

Being a mother and grandmother is the best of the best in my life. My grandchildren multiply the joy...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

A home should be an intimate autobiography of the things that you like. One of the things I'm so...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

THERE are a lot of nice people out there who think good thoughts -- why not share them?
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

The world is extremely interesting to a joyful soul.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

When we sip tea, we are on our way to serenity.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

All forms of self expression are linked.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

When you leave a beautiful place, you carry it with you wherever you go.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

You're not going to be dreary on the inside if you're not dreary on the outside.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

The home is the center of your soul; it's a total reflection of your inner life. If you have a d...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what t...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

The "art of tea" is a spiritual force for us to share
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

We can finish a house, but never a home. Once you fall in love with a house, you find continual plea...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

Colors are important. People are in clinical depression whether they are on medication or not. Neutr...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

I find it soothing to take something wrinkled and make it smooth. It feels anticipatory. It's wh...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

Each of us must become impassioned, finding meaning and self-fulfillment in our own life's journ...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn'...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

Feeling at home with ourselves and being able to create a spirit of place that nourishes us physical...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

I want to inspire through example. I hope my books motivate others to open doors and windows that wi...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

When I was little, I got to pick my hair ribbon from my mother's collection that hung over her d...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

Put a picture of yourself as a child in view somewhere, to remind yourself to be playful.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

I think of myself as the little girl Renoir painted with the watering can. I loved the garden colors...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the tr...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradis...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

Happiness is the first principle of life. Happiness basically means well-being. It is always good an...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

You learn to give up what's not working and surround yourself with things you love - not what...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

When I'm the happiest, my desk is not neat. It has lots of pens and the books I love. It gets me...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

If we have authentic, honest, earthy materials in our houses, we'll be more authentic, honest an...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

We can live closer to our dreams if we are willing to dream them. And we can create a life as we wan...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

We have to establish time boundaries and learn how to say no.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

Make your physical surroundings as beautiful as possible.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

We can raise our sights high when we're willing to break free from being conformists who live a ...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

The 'art of tea' is a spiritual force for us to share.
ALEXANDRA STODDARD

If necessity is the mother of invention, then laziness must be its father.
CARL STODDARD

Of all the pestilence's dire, Including famine, flood, and fire; By Satan and his imps rehearsed, Th...
STODDARD KING

The first step in getting to a paperless society is getting rid of the lawyers.
CARL STODDARD

We were very pleased that he's faster than he was at conference last season. Our goal -- he set it, ...
TERRY STODDARD

The Bell companies are once again using false and misleading advertising to lobby for special favors...
ROBERT STODDARD

But our business is horizontal. Every business has mission-critical data.
BUD STODDARD

We Tie is facing the same challenges we did when we started eight years ago, so we are happy to coll...
BUD STODDARD

The calling of an author is more than just to entertain, but also to share ones experiences with the...
M.J. STODDARD

I can?t believe I won?t ever play on this floor again. It?s kind of sad.
CHAD STODDARD

It feels really good. We knew we could do it if we worked hard all season.
CHAD STODDARD

We didn't execute real well on offense but we really played good defense.
CHAD STODDARD

We love in others what we lack in ourselves, and would be everything, but what we are.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

Children are the keys of paradise.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

When we can say no not only to things that are wrong and sinful, but also to things pleasant, profit...
CHARLES A. STODDARD

Grace is savage and must be savage in order to be perfect.
CHARLES A. STODDARD

Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and th...
CHARLES A. STODDARD

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
RICHARD HENRY STODDARD

We grow like flowers, and bear desire, The odor of the human flowers.
RICHARD H. STODDARD

I have never been a professional model; I have had some modeling sessions.
ALEXANDRA KOSTENIUK

I'm a combination between extreme insecurity and extreme confidence.
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO

A journalist is supposed to present an unbiased portrait of an event, a view devoid of intimate emot...
ALEXANDRA KERRY

Caring is open-hearted, keeping us available to transmit love to a stranger through simple eye conta...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS

Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I think I'm losing it—I don't know what's happening, what happened, but I look at you, I look at y...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Don’t be scared. Don’t let them see.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones.
No you aren't, he promised. Your one of...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

For some reason, I find jogging incredibly boring, but yoga is the only thing I've been able to ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO

In Africa, we filled up all available time busily doing not much, and then we wasted the rest.
ALEXANDRA FULLER

No one starts a war warning that those involved will lose their innocence - that children will defin...
ALEXANDRA FULLLER

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly,...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. M...
ALEXANDRA POTTER

Ghosts don't haunt people--their memories do.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pa...
ALEXANDRA ELLE

You do have a choice, you know,” Etta told her after a moment. “There is always a choice.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Und manchmal passiert einem das Leben einfach, und man kann ihm nicht ausweichen Es kracht voll in e...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often we...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO

I was genuinely lucky to have the professors I did, many of whom took a very humanist approach in te...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN

Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect La...
ALEXANDRA PETRI

I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school h...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO

Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals&...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that sam...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward com...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS

I don't know if it's just my age or the climate or the high altitude or some of those old-co...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

I think of making a movie in such a romantic way.
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chan...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

The cars we drive say a lot about us.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will ge...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

Power, as in the power structure, is why we are still using gas in cars.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

The big companies and their short-term bottom line rule this country.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxo...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I've always preferred food be on the blander side.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove el...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

Women have this obsession with shoes.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I'm very much a lead by example person.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

If the whole world went vegan, there would be less war. How you eat determines your mood and your ou...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I really believe in non-violence, but I also believe in a short of resistance that has to be respect...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and gra...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We...
ALEXANDRA CASSAVETES

Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectl...
ALEXANDRA PETRI

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end o...
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI

Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'diffe...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

Charlize Theron is perfect. She holds herself with so much poise and grace. I don't know if she ...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO

I wasn't all that familiar with the 'Texas Chainsaw' franchise, and I knew who Leatherfa...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO

I watched 'Alien,' and I watched 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,' the Swedish vers...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO

I had done a lot of running in 'Texas Chainsaw' and sword-fighting in 'Percy Jackson,...
ALEXANDRA DADDARIO

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no...
ALEXANDRA FULLER

Being a person of faith is just another of a wide range of fun activities available to those who com...
ALEXANDRA PETRI

George Washington didn't have to make us laugh; he just had to establish precedents and avoid ch...
ALEXANDRA PETRI

Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and le...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS

My reasons for becoming a chef are somewhat of a cliche. I always loved to eat but it was watching m...
ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI

Stand up for the underdog, the 'loser.' Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for una...
ALEXANDRA KATEHAKIS

I think it's important to convey to the women some of the variety of choices available to them as th...
ALEXANDRA TURALLO

These kinds of people have absolutely so much to show.
ALEXANDRA TURALLO

You can do it all in one place. You don't have to spend on the gas. And you can buy. If you go to a ...
ALEXANDRA TURALLO

It's a nice girls' day out. It's a nice mix of vendors, a nice place to ask questions if it's a serv...
ALEXANDRA TURALLO

It was very hard, but we could not convict her of manslaughter in the other five cases based on the ...
ALEXANDRA SANDERS

All the evidence they put before us, it just added up. On the other five, it wasn't 100 percent. We ...
ALEXANDRA SANDERS

We took each one and just tore them apart. We were like six college students researching a paper.
ALEXANDRA SANDERS

My heart goes out to the other five families. But we just didn't have enough evidence in those cases...
ALEXANDRA SANDERS

If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail, ... I assume the writer is in middle school. E-mail...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS

Just as people used to fret about the rules on when to call someone back, ... now they agonize for h...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS

If someone doesn't spell 'you' out in an e-mail,
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS

...make sure you are still living in the present, rather than for an uncertain future.
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS

At middle age, a guy might feel his life is stagnant, with too much predictability, stability and ce...
ALEXANDRA ROBBINS

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of tr...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY

We're not home-and-hearth people. We're the adventurers, the buccaneers, the blockade runners. Witho...
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY

Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
ALEXANDRA RIPLEY

It makes me remember how important it is to take stock of these things. We are all just one big cog ...
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

We have no idea. That's the investigation.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

[As for whether Teixeira was pushed, fell or jumped,] we have no idea, ... That's the investigation.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

All seven people have been reunited with their friends and families in good condition.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

They have over 30 years of hiking experience, but tonight the temperature is forecast to be 10 degre...
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

People get blinded by the marijuana issue. ... We don't want people planting asparagus on the land, ...
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

They'll pour fertilizer right into a stream, then irrigate out of it,
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

It may be somebody entirely different.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

In the ice and snow, biological processes move really slowly, and it's not unlike putting something ...
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

We're not going to go fast. We want to preserve him as much as possible. He's pretty intact.
ALEXANDRA PICAVET

I know I'm an actor, but I'm not at all a believer in people watching a lot of TV. I've never had te...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I don't wear leather, wool, or silk.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I don't think I miss anything by not watching television.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

For me, going vegan was an ethical and environmental decision. I'm doing the right thing by the anim...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

Electric cars aren't pollution-free; they have to get their energy from somewhere.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I'm pretty much a cheap date, you know... no alcohol, no meat at dinner, and then, you know, when I ...
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I'm very out of style... or I should say I have my own style.
ALEXANDRA PAUL

I can't describe what happened. Everything is very vivid within my mind. I knew I could get good res...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO

It's harder for us to crack into that top 15 at the international stage. So this [Commonwealth Games...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO

It was a goal of mine, and I was expecting to do it if I performed well. I'm always nervous until al...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO

I'm very happy with my ball and rope.
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO

We're all so close. It was just amazing for us. We were almost crying.
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO

It (winning gold) is so important because it's been so long since Canada's been on top and it's just...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO

To have six is a bit unreal. I hope that this boosts the popularity of rhythmic gymnastics in Canada...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO

She's a huge support for me. Whenever I have a chance, I love just talking to her.
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO

Erika is a huge role model for me and an inspiration. I'm growing into myself and a much stronger gy...
ALEXANDRA ORLANDO

A principle of justice is that the defense needs to be able to conduct interviews in a privileged se...
ALEXANDRA MILENOV

It is too early to reach any sort of conclusion.
ALEXANDRA MILENOV

The proceedings will be terminated.
ALEXANDRA MILENOV

He gave no indication he was contemplating such a move. There was nothing unusual in his demeanor.
ALEXANDRA MILENOV

We have no information. He is not in the tribunal.
ALEXANDRA MILENOV

We had pretty high hopes and there was a lot of pressure on us to take medals. It's difficult when y...
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER

She has magic knees. I think it's a miracle she's already racing, and she did a good job.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER

She was really one of the girls I would have said would win a medal.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER

I had a good run, especially on the upper part of the course, but Michaela was just too strong.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER

It was really on the limit today. One of my teammates got hurt, but I don't think it was too dangero...
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER

We all know everyone was not competing in the same conditions.
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER

Today I had a lot of confidence. I took it pretty relaxed. I think it's priceless to start a season ...
ALEXANDRA MEISSNITZER

Thinking about how much they sacrifice amazes me.
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR

With my whole family, it's always been about community service and helping others before helping you...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR

I can't believe that this much has happened. I thought when I got the Oakland County resolution that...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR

You do not need to support the war going on in Iraq, but please realize that our troops do much more...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR

We have a Veterans Day and Memorial Day, but we don't have a day for the troops that are fighting ri...
ALEXANDRA MCGREGOR

We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV it was all too post-post-m...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS

I am so glad we got that guy - I just want to give him a big, wet smooch. I'm so grateful. He's the ...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS

That was when the alarm began to be ratcheted up,
ALEXANDRA JACOBS

We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV - it was all too post-post...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS

We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV--it was post-postmodern,
ALEXANDRA JACOBS

We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV. That seemed a little bit,...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS

We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢�...
ALEXANDRA JACOBS

Boswell Wide Awake.
ALEXANDRA DAY

The children keep growing up on me. I have to keep getting new babies.
ALEXANDRA DAY

I was pretty sure when we made the first 'Carl' book that we had a good idea, but I couldn't have im...
ALEXANDRA DAY

especially if they involve activities which would probably be forbidden by the grown-ups in charge.
ALEXANDRA DAY

I don't think I've ever played in a golf tournament with so many people rooting against me. It's har...
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN

Winning, to be included with all those legends, would be a great honor.
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN

I've been in a slump, and to come back and win something like this is awesome.
ALEXANDRA BODEMANN

My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.

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My message is that happiness is the first principle of life. But you must choose it. We all have pain, but suffering is a choice. You can be happier if you make some changes in your life.

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